@Samwel

That was it!!!
I went to AHI prefs, and de-selected the checkbox that
says "screw up the sound while browsing".
Now everything is ok! I'm impressed..

OK, I'm really just having fun, don't take me wrong here.

I've been in a great mood all day, and I got a LOT of good stuff done at work today too.

It's late, but I look forward to getting to the bottom of this in a few days when I get more time. Right now I'll guess that I might still have two soundcards.. the internal and the SoundBlaster.

Hang on.. (digging around behind the computer rack..)
Nope, the SoundBlaster is no longer installed.. But the driver is still in Devs:ahi. I guess I can remove that now..

Rebooting..
Starting TuneNet, the Police, from Zenyatta Mondatta.
Shadows in the Rain..
Starting AWeb.. Yup, still stutters, but not as bad..
Loading a few pages.. the more graphics, the worse it is..
Low GFX pages no longer stutter... But still some breakup on most pages.

It's late.. I'll try some more tomorrow.
So much to do, getting ready for Christmas and all.

Thanks for the help! We will solve this.

Lyle Haze

When you added the heatsink, did you use a bit of thermal grease? It's necessary to conduct the heat from the chip to the heatsink. No need for the "expensive" stuff like Arctic Silver, just the cheap stuff from RadioShack will work fine.

Also, if you want to know which chip(s) are shutting you down, you might want to play a bit with some freon spray, chilling one chip at a time until operation is restored.
Might be a bit hard to get nowadays, it used to be much easier to find before we got holes in the ozone layer.

Finally, check the rotation on the CPU fan.. they work better if they are blowing air onto the heatsink instead of pulling air from it.

Good Luck,
LyleHaze

Well..
version devs:ahi.device returns 6.6
version devs:ahi/cmi8738.audio returns 5.16

I wonder if it might be my USB MIDI driver? It's running,
but traffic is really low. If I shut off both USB MIDI devices
and then reboot the driver won't load.

I also noticed that I still have the older ahi driver for
my soundblaster installed.. I think the card has been
removed.
I'll pull the computer out of the rack and check that tonight
after work.
(I used the SB card for MIDI IN before the usb drivers were completed)

Oh, and the total contents of my WBStartup are:
ScreenBlankerEngine
AmiDock
RAWBInfo
Deficons
ASyncWB
FKey

Nothing looks odd there, but I can remove them all
and try again after work today.

Thanks again for the help. I will dig deeper, but it's time
to go earn a paycheck first.

LyleHaze

Thanks to both for your help..
I have installed the latest CMI drivers, and have
made sure that the task priority is at 20 (it was already there)
I'm still getting a LOT of dropouts (maybe even more than before) whenever AWeb is loading graphics. If the computer
(and AWEB) are idle, the sound quality is great.

I may get a chance to play with it more in a few days. Being
an adult means I don't get as much play time as I'd like

I did NOT load any of the new plugins, but at first glance, I don't think any of them were related to MP3 playback.. But I may be wrong.

Thanks again for the help,
LyleHaze

Greetings!
I just installed TuneNet today, so I'm not sure what
to expect. Here's my details:

Micro-AOne with Update 4
Using the internal sound (CMI something?)

Went looking for mpega for OS4, installed the "libmad" version.
Went looking for pthread.library, installed "threads.library" instead.

I've got about 4 Gig of mp3's that I've encoded over the last few weeks using lame and Michael Merkels rather excellent ARexx script. Seems to be working great. All stored on an FFS partition.

Now on to the troubles. Seems to work great when the machine is otherwise idle, but varies from "popping" to rather nasty dropouts whenever I'm browsing. I've left the priority settings alone, and I've tried a few different AHI modes with no change.

I'm open for any suggestions.. I'd love to make this my music player, if I can still use the computer for other things, too.

Thanks,
LyleHaze

If you want to attach to a Micro-AOne board, you might want to look these details over:
http://www.ncscaug.us/ua1page1.htm
That'll give you details on the pinouts for the USB Headers on board.

Have Fun,
LyleHaze

I have owned many Amiga 1000s and an A4000D. I swore
I would keep them forever. Then the AOne came along.
After six months using OS4, I gave away all my classic Amiga machines.

After I've run OS4, there is no going back. It's got speed, sure. But it just feels right. I believe in this OS.

Just my opinion, of course.

LyleHaze

Greetings All.
Nice place. I look forward to being part of a
constructive community.

Re:Appearance
Looks fine on AWeb, but I still had to fall back
to Windows for registration and to post.
For some reason my AWeb usually fails to post
messages, here and at a few other sites.

I'll be checking in often. If I fail to post frequently
it's only because starting my windows machine
is such a depressing thing to do.

LyleHaze